Create or modify answer options

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Create or modify answer options

You must create answer options, called metric definitions, for survey questions that
have Data type set to Choice or Likert
Scale.

Before you begin

Role required: admin or survey_admin

About this task

Changes to a survey, such as the addition or modification of answer options, apply
to existing survey instances immediately.

Procedure

Navigate to Survey > Questions.

Open a choice or Likert scale survey question.

In the Assessment Metric Definitions related list, open
a metric definition or click New.

Each answer option is stored as a record on the Assessment Metric Definition
[asmt_metric_definition] table.

Complete the Assessment Metric Definition form.

Table 1. Assessment Metric Definition fields

Field

Description

Display

Text to appear as the answer option.

Value

Numeric value, greater than or equal to zero, to
which the answer option equates. Values determine the
order in which answer options appear. See the example
below.

Values are also used to calculate survey
results. Each metric definition for a given question
must have a different Value.

Click Submit.

Example

On survey questionnaires, the answer options for a question appear in order from
smallest to largest Value. For example, consider the survey
question How do you feel? with the answer options
Good, Neutral, and Bad. The
following table shows the answer option order based on the
Value.

Table 2. Answer option order based on value

Answer option

Value

Order

Good

1

First

Neutral

3

Second

Bad

5

Third

If you use survey result calculations, ensure the question Scale
definition is set appropriately based on the answer options. In the
previous example, if you want the answer option Good to earn the
highest score, the scale definition should be Low because
Good has the smallest value.